Light Fortress Chapter 1991 - 45: Found You, Eat You!

"..."

Gu Shen looked at the "self" before him with an expressionless face.

The Heart Lake showed no abnormalities.

The nine Heart Flow Powers were operating, ancient scripts continuously leaping into the Heart Lake.

"You are not me."

Gu Shen shook his head and let go of his hand.

The "Gu Shen in the lake" that had been lifted up fell down, but instead of sinking, it sat on the lake surface, smiling at Gu Shen.

"Why?"

The Gu Shen in the lake spoke with a smile, sitting cross-legged, unbothered by his disheveled state, eyes full of anticipation.

Gu Shen slowly walked onto the lake.

He looked beneath himself... neither his real self nor his mirrored self had a shadow.

"It’s simple, because this is my ’Spiritual World.’ If I say there is, then there is; if I say there isn’t, then there isn’t."

Gu Shen sat before the false self, saying word by word, "So... if I say you are not me, then you are not me."

"Then."

The false Gu Shen suddenly collected the smile, tilting his head seriously and asking, "Who am I?"

This question rendered the lake silent once more.

Gu Shen lowered his gaze, falling into contemplation.

The figure before him was indeed identical to his "existence."

At this moment, he suddenly recalled a question: before he entered this world as an outsider, there was another Gu Shen in this world.

Moreover, the "protagonist" Gu Shen.

In previous cycles, Zhou Jiren, Luo Er, and Zhong Wei had desperately protected the "Gu Shen" who would reset the world, preventing his death.

But now with his arrival, the false Gu Shen suddenly disappeared...

Where did the false Gu Shen go?

At this moment Gu Shen raised his head, staring coldly at the figure sitting opposite him.

"Don’t you have any sense of what you are?"

The false Gu Shen was stunned for a second.

"How should I call you... does the ’Origin Will’ of the Void World have its own ’name’?"

Gu Shen replied expressionlessly, "Surely you didn’t think that just by living with my name, you could claim to be the true ’Gu Shen’?"

"Ha."

Upon hearing this, the cross-legged Gu Shen ceased his pretense, his features began to fade, transforming into a gentle glow.

Several seconds later.

Sitting cross-legged on the lake was now no more than a vague humanoid figure.

"This is only the second ’reset’."

The Origin Will propped its chin, sighing, "I never thought we’d meet again so quickly. Gu Shen... your pace is just too fast."

"..."

Gu Shen stared coldly at the figure before him, full of apprehension.

"If not for you, how long would it take for those outside to see me?"

The figure revealed by the Origin Will looked very slender, extending a finger to slowly stir the lake, creating circles of ripples.

It asked with a smile, "Two hundred times, three hundred times... or perhaps never, until death?"

Gu Shen maintained silence.

He simply watched the figure before him, contemplating the conditions triggering this meeting.

Was it because of the ancient scripts on the Traveler’s Stele?

No.

It wasn’t because of the stele’s scripts!

It was because his "mind cultivation" had made a breakthrough; in this continually resetting world, some things couldn’t be restricted.

For instance, his Chi Huo.

And for instance, mind cultivation.

The world’s resetting does not strip an outsider’s memory but forcefully retracts their "Extraordinary Power" to match the world’s chronological trajectory.

For example, if the reset start time moved back by a year.

Then the senior sister would regress from the [Divine Eye] titled strength back to the Fourth-tier Level.

"If not for you, the most promising one among these people should be ’Rust Bone’."

The Origin Will smiled, "After all, his strength remains unwavering, challenging each reset at its peak."

Gu Shen frowned slightly.

Indeed... Rust Bone General is virtually unaffected by the "reset," because his strength had reached its peak many years ago!

"What exactly are you trying to say?"

At this point, Gu Shen was running out of patience.

He raised his palm, instantly causing thousands of strands of firelight to gather above the lake, forming hundreds of floating small swords.

"What I’m trying to say, haven’t you figured it out yet?"

The Origin Will remained unperturbed.

It smiled, "You’ve already guessed that the world I’ve constructed is merely a game, so as the ’creator,’ of course, I wish for the game to become more interesting. I hope these outsiders can stay in my world a bit longer; if you just lead them to ’escape,’ this game would indeed be quite dull."

"It seems like I’m not far from victory."

Gu Shen sneered coldly.

He was now certain that the ancient script on the Traveler’s Stele was related to the "portal."

Having mastered the ancient script to open the "portal," the subsequent [Old World] travel could save a significant amount of time, continuously conducting spatial jumps.

"No, no, no."

The Origin Will shook its head, saying, "You are far from victory, but with your ’approach’... it won’t be long before someone dies."

"?!"

Gu Shen’s expression changed, his voice growing somber: "What did you say?"

"Haven’t you noticed? Dying from catastrophic injuries... can cause irreversible ’damage’ to an outsider’s Spirit Sea."

The Origin Will raised a finger.